TERRY BELANGER University Professor and Honorary Curator of Special Collections University of Virginia 114 Alderman Library Char
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Terry Belanger: printed 20 May 2009 1 TERRY BELANGER University Professor and Honorary Curator of Special Collections University of Virginia 114 Alderman Library Charlottesville, VA 22903 Telephone 434/924-8851; fax 434/924-8824 Email [email protected] URL <www.rarebookschool.org>. Revised 1 May 2009 Prose summary: Born in 1941, Terry Belanger was educated at Haverford College and at Columbia University, where he received his PhD in 18th-century English literature in 1970. In 1972, he established the Book Arts Press at Columbia University as a bibliographical laboratory supporting a program for the training of rarebook and special collections librarians and antiquarian booksellers. As part of that program, in 1983 he inaugurated a continuing education Rare Book School (RBS), a collection of courses of interest to students of the history of the book and related subjects. Belanger moved both the Book Arts Press and RBS to the University of Virginia in 1992, where he accepted an appointment as University Professor and Honorary Curator of Special Collections. Each year, RBS attracts about 295participants who competefor admission to fiveday courses on subjects ranging from the history of bookbinding structures to rare book cataloging. In 2008, RBS offers about 30 courses in nine sessions in four locations: Charlottesville, New York City, Baltimore, and Washington DC. Rare book schools founded on the model of Rare Book School are currently operating in London, Los Angeles (as California RBS), Lyon (Book History Workshop), Melbourne AU, and Dunedin/Wellington NZ. Belanger's appointment at UVa as University Professor is an interdisciplinary one, without department or fixed duties; this past fall, he taught courses in the School of Arts and Sciences and in the School of Engineering and Applied Science. Belanger was Rosenbach Lecturer at the University of Pennsylvania (1986); and he has given the Graham Pollard Lecture of the Bibliographical Society of London (1988), the Hanes Lecture at the University of North Carolina (1991), the Malkin Lecture at Columbia (1991), the Brownell Lecture at the University of Iowa (1994), the Adler Lecture at Skidmore College (1996), the Mayo Lecture at Texas A & M University(2003), the inaugural lecture in the Fondren Library Distinguished LectureSeries at Rice University (2004), the Swartzburg Lecture at Wells College (2007), the McCusker Lecture at Dominican University (2008), and about two hundred other formal presentations on bibliographical and bibliophilic subjects over the past 35 years. He is scheduled to give the annual addresses of the Bibliographical Society of America in January 2009, and of the Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia in March 2009. He is a 2005 MacArthur Foundation Fellow. Education: Ph.D., Columbia University, 1970 (English) Dissertation: “Booksellers' Sales of Copyright, 1718-1768"; sponsor: John H Middendorf M.A., Columbia University, 1964 (English) B.A., Haverford College, 1963 (English) Employment: University of Virginia: University Professor and Honorary Curator of Special Collections, 1992Rare Book School: Founding Director, 1983 Terry Belanger: printed 20 May 2009 2 Columbia University School of Library Service: Associate Professor, 1986-1992 Assistant Dean, l980-86 Assistant Professor, l972-79 Lecturer, 1971-72 Honors: MacArthur Foundation Fellowship: 2005 Member, American Antiquarian Society (elected 1994) American Printing History Association annual Individual Award: 1994 American Printing History Association annual Institutional Award (to the Book Arts Press and the Columbia University School of Library Service): 1986 Separate Publications: Dancing by the Book: a Catalogue of Books 1531-1804 in the Collection of Mary Ann O’Brian Malkin. With Mary Ann O’Brian Malkin, Moira Goff, Richard Noble, and Jennifer Thorp. New York City: Privately Printed, 2003. The Objects of Bibliography: An Exhibition in Alderman Library, University of Virginia, September/October 1992 (exhibition catalog). Preliminary Edition. Charlottesville: Book Arts Press, 1992. The Anatomy of a Book: I: Format in the Hand-Press Period (30-minute videotape). Author and co-producer. New York: Viking Productions, Inc. 1991. Reformatted and released as a DVD, 2003. The Anatomy of a Book: I: Format in the Hand-Press Period: Workbook and Facsimiles, Including a Transcript of the Videotape and a Glossary of Terms (with Peter Herdrich). New York: Book Arts Press, 1991. Seventh printing, 2004. Eleventh printing, 2008. Thanks for the Memories: The Rare Book Program at Columbia University, 1971-1991 (exhibition catalog). New York: Book Arts Press, Columbia University School of Library Service, 1991. Three Hundred...And Counting: Book Arts Press Lectures, 1972-1990 (exhibition catalog). New York: Book Arts Press, Columbia University School of Library Service, 1990. How to Operate a Book (30-minute videotape). Co-author (with Gary Frost) and Executive Editor. Book Arts Press Video Productions, Columbia University School of Library Service, 1986. The Book Arts Press: 1976-1986 (exhibition catalog). New York: Book Arts Press, Columbia University School of Library Service, 1986. Lunacy and the Arrangement of Books. New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Books, 1983; 2nd printing 1985; 3rd printing 2003. Articles and Contributions to Books “The Rare Book Program at Columbia University, 1972-1992,” in The Commonwealth of Books: Essays and Studies in Honour of Ian Willison, ed. Wallace Kirsop. Melbourne: Centre for the Book, Monash University, 2007, pp. 197-208. “Reflections on Doing It Yourself” [adapted from the Anita Lynn Forgach Keynote Address given at the Friends of Dard Hunter 25th Conference, October 2007], in Bull & Branch: Friends of Dard Hunter, Inc. Newsletter 25/3 (February 2007), pp. 4-7. “Afterward” in Special Collections in the Twenty-First Century, ed. by Barbara Jones Library Trends, 52(1), Summer 2003, pp. 183-95. “Twenty Years After,” in Printing History 33 (17:1) 1995 [published May 1996], pp 3-13. “The Materiality of the Book: Another Turn of the Screw,” in Literary Texts in an Electronic Age: Scholarly Im- plications and Library Services, ed Brett Sutton. Urbana: Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois, 1994 [proceedings of the 31st Annual Clinic on Library Applications of Data Processing]. “Roundtable Discussion: Four Perspectives [with Nicolas Barker, Werner Gundersheimer, and Thomas F. Staley],” in Rare Book and Manuscript Libraries in the Twenty-First Century, ed. Richard Wendorf. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Library, 1993; pp 113-122. “Reflections by the Captain of the Iceberg,” in The Book Encompassed: Studies in Twentieth-Century Bibliography, ed Peter Davison (London: The Bibliographical Society, 1992). “Institutional Book Collecting in the Old Northwest,” in Getting the Books Out: Papers of the Chicago Conference on the Book in 19th-Century America. Washington: Library of Congress (Center for the Book), 1987. “Rare Books and Special Collections in American Libraries: Seeing the Sites,” in Rare Books and Manuscripts Librarianship, no 1 (1986). “One Hundred and Fifty Years of Bankruptcy: The History of Scholarly Publishing in America,” in Organizing for Tomorrow: Reports from the Think-Tanks and the Trenches (Proceedings of the Sixth Annual Meeting of the Society for Scholarly Publishing, 1984). Washington, DC: Society for Scholarly Publishing, 1985; pp 13-20. “Rare Book School 1983,” in Rare Books 1983-84: Trends, Collections, Sources, ed Alice D Schreyer. New York: R. R. Bowker Company, 1984; pp 137-141. “How to Collect Books: The Taste of 1884,” in Gazette of the Grolier Club, new series nos 35-36 (1983-84); pp 1-14. “Educational Uses of the Library,” in The Grolier Club 1884-1984: Its Library, Exhibitions, and Publications. New York: The Grolier Club, 1984; pp 102-105. Terry Belanger: printed 20 May 2009 3 ALA Glossary of Library and Information Science, ed. Heartsill Young. Chicago: American Library Association, 1983. Entries on bibliography, manuscripts, rare books, archives, and conservation. “Publishers and Writers in 18th-Century England,” in Books and Their Readers in Eighteenth-Century England, ed. Isabel Rivers. Leicester University Press, 1982; pp 5-25. “Rare Book Cataloguing and Computers,” in AB Bookman's Weekly, 5 February 1979, pp 955-966, and 14 January 1980, pp 187-204. With Stephen Paul Davis. “Special Collections,” entry in American Library Association Yearbook, 1979, 1980, 1981. “From Bookseller to Publisher: Changes in the London Book Trade, 1750-1850,” in Book Selling and Book Buying: Aspects of the Nineteenth British and North American Book Trade, ed. Richard G. Landon. Chicago: American Library Association, 1978 (Association of College & Research Libraries Publications in Librarianship, no. 40); pp 5-15. “The Price of Preservation,” in Times Literary Supplement, 18 November 1977. “A Directory of the London Book Trade, 1766,” in Publishing History I (1977); pp 7-48. “Descriptive Bibliography,” in Book Collecting: A Modern Guide, ed. Jean Peters. New York: R. R. Bowker Company, 1977; pp 97-115. “Tonson, Wellington and the Shakespeare Copyrights,” in Studies in the Book Trade in Honour of Graham Pollard. Oxford: Oxford Bibliographical Society, 1975; pp 195-209. “Booksellers' Sales of Copyright 1718-1768,” in The Library, 5th series 30 (December 1975); pp 281-301. “One Hundred Books: On the 18th-Century Book Trade,” in AB Bookman's Weekly, 30 June 1975; pp 3020-3050. “Book Production and Distribution,” in New Cambridge